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48) 4 MATERNAL SUICIDES MARCH TO MAY 2020

20th Oct, 2021 | Information

Details of the failings which we are campaigning to improve are in the MBRRACE link below. More avoidable deaths and devastation. The report by Mark Norman in the BBC article in the bulletin (46) reinforces this. Please read it.

xxxx SO WHY DON’T THE POWERS THAT BE WANT TO LISTEN TO THE EVERGLOW CAMPAIGN? PLEASE JOIN US AND STOP THIS FROM HAPPENING. XXX

MBRRACE Rapid Report – Maternal Suicide during Lockdown – Maternal Mental Health Scotland

Mothers and Babies: Reducing Risk Though Audits and Confidential Enquiries across the UK (MBRRACE-UK) have published a Rapid report: Learning from SARS-CoV-2-related and associated maternal deaths in the UK. It makes for sobering reading, reporting that four women in the UK died by suicide during March – May 2020.

The women involved appear to have been bounced between different mental health services, with no recognition of repeated referral. Visits from health visitors had stopped for the women, and they had received only a single post-natal midwife visit, due to COVID-19 guideline